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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p>Die <b>African Orthodox Church</b> ist eine Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten, die 1919 von George Alexander McGuire in Chicago gegründet wurde. McGuire war ein Priester der <a href="Episkopalkirche_der_Vereinigten_Staaten_von_Amerika" class="mw-redirect" title="Episkopalkirche der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika">Episkopalkirche der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika</a> und die Kirche legt bis heute Wert auf <a href="Katholizit%C3%A4t#Kennzeichen_der_Katholizität" title="Katholizität">Merkmale der Katholizität</a>. Die African Orthodox Church hat ungefähr 15 Bezirke und 5.000 Mitglieder.
</p><p>Die Gründung der African Orthodox Church (AOC) hatte den Zweck, als afroamerikanische Episkopalkirche eigenständig zu sein. Der episkopale Rektor George Alexander McGuire wurde am 28. September 1921 in <a href="Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> durch <a href="Joseph_Ren%C3%A9_Vilatte" title="Joseph René Vilatte">Joseph René Vilatte</a> zum Bischof geweiht.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Die neue Kirche nannte sich zunächst <i>Independent Episcopal Church</i>; bei ihrem ersten Konklave (<i>House of Bishops</i>) am 10. September 1924 wurde die Umbenennung in <i>African Orthodox Church</i> vollzogen.
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<ul><li>Arthur C. Thompson's <i>The History of the African Orthodox Church</i> (1956)</li>
<li>Byron Rushing's <i>A Note on the Origin of the African Orthodox Church</i> (JNH, Jan. 1972)</li>
<li>Gavin White's <i>Patriarch McGuire and the Episcopal Church</i></li></ul>
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<div class="sisterproject" style="margin:0.1em 0 0 0;"><div class="noresize noviewer" style="display:inline-block; line-height:10px; min-width:1.6em; text-align:center;" aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Commons"></span></span></div><b><span class=""><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:African_Orthodox_Church?uselang=de"><span lang="en">Commons</span>: African Orthodox Church</a></span></b> – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien</div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://netministries.org/see/churches.exe/ch26904">NetMinistries - African Orthodox Church, Inc.</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://coltranechurch.org/">St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane Church, San Francisco</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/church_history/makarios_tillyrides_east_africa.htm"><i>The Origin of Orthodoxy in East Africa</i> - by His Eminence Metropolitan Makarios (Tillyrides) of Zimbabwe</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Vgl. Mead, Frank S., Handbook of Denominations in the United States, 10th edition, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995, pp. 128–129.</span>
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Normdaten (Körperschaft): <a href="Gemeinsame_Normdatei" title="Gemeinsame Normdatei">GND</a>: <span class="-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://d-nb.info/gnd/82921-3">82921-3</a></span> | <a href="Library_of_Congress_Control_Number" title="Library of Congress Control Number">LCCN</a>: <span class="-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n82010855">n82010855</a></span> | <a href="Virtual_International_Authority_File" title="Virtual International Authority File">VIAF</a>: <span class="-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/158870962/">158870962</a></span> </div>
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